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Armagh census substitutes go online

The Irish Family History Foundation (IFHF) has made available online over 40,000 census substitute records.

The IFHF says: “Quite often the only realistic strategy in tracing ancestors beyond church registers is to examine surviving census returns and census substitutes, usually compiled by civil parish, for any references to a surname or given name of interest.

“This database contains an index to people recorded in fourteen such sources, dating from 1611 to 1855. These sources usually contain only names of heads of households; each source returns the name of the head of household, year, civil parish address, and (in most cases) townland (or street/town) address. The Flax Growers Lists of 1796 and some of the 1740 and 1766 returns do not record townland addresses. The new sources added are:

Muster Rolls of 1611

Armagh Rent Rolls of 1620

Hearth Money Rolls of 1666

Drumcree Rents of 1737

Protestant Householders of 1740

Signatories for 1st Markethill Presbyterian Church of 1763

Religious Census of 1766

Census of Heads of Households for Creggan parish of 1766

Armagh City Census of 1770

County Armagh Flax Growers List of 1796

Forkhill Cess Lists of 1820

County Armagh Tithe Applotments of 1823-37

Census of Newtownhamilton 2nd Presbyterian Church of 1826

Emigrants from Derrynoose Parish 1840-1855

“By logging directly into the Armagh Ancestry site you can choose a ‘Source’ from the search screen to narrow your search.”